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On Hallowed Ground by John Patrick Diggins 9780300177015
Booksplease Price: $68.68In this provocative book, John Patrick Diggins, hailed by Alan Ryan in the New York Times as "one of the liveliest and most interesting of contemporary intellectual historians," offers a... -
Why Niebuhr Now? by John Patrick Diggins
Booksplease Price: $29.02Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers." John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war." Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more... -
Why Niebuhr Now? by John Patrick Diggins 9780226148830
Booksplease Price: $47.97Barack Obama has called him 'one of my favorite philosophers'. John McCain wrote that he is 'a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war'. Andrew Sullivan has said, 'We need Niebuhr now more... -
Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America by John Patrick Diggins
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $144.98Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analysis of America's reaction to an ideological phenomenon... -
The Rise and Fall of the American Left by John Patrick Diggins 9780393309171
RRP: $45.83Booksplease Price: $43.95Born in America, the American Left was nurtured by intellectuals and activists who read Jefferson and Whitman before they read Marx or Mao. One lesson this brilliant history teaches us is that the... -
John Adams, 1797-1801: The American Presidents by John Patrick Diggins 9780805069372
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $43.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805069372Author John Patrick DigginsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Times BooksPublisher... -
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History by John Patrick Diggins 9780393330922
Booksplease Price: $27.01In this bold, revisionist biography, distinguished historian John Patrick Diggins shows that Ronald Reagan, in his distrust of big government, his pursuit of libertarian ideals, and his negotiations... -
The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960 by John Patrick Diggins 9780393956566
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $42.32"Richly instructive. . . . With characteristic cogency and verve John Diggins has painted a memorable portrait of the United States at a triumphant moment in its history."-David M. Kennedy, Stanford... -
The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-interest and the Foundations of Liberalism by John Patrick Diggins
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $100.13The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such... -
The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past by John Patrick Diggins 9780691608617
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $89.80For more than half a century, the celebrated historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has been the guiding force of American liberalism, both intellectually and in practice. The author of many critically... -
The Degradation of American History by David Harlan
Booksplease Price: $59.34American historical writing has traditionally been a primary form of moral reflection. However, this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive... -
Liberalism for a New Century by Neil Jumonville 9780520250710
Booksplease Price: $63.24American liberalism today is in a state of confusion and disarray, with the 'L word' widely considered a term of derision. By examining both the historical past and the fractious present, "Liberalism... -
A Preface to Morals Bernard J. Paris 9780878559077
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.78After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the... -
The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture by Morris Dickstein
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after... -
The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke Thomas L. Pangle 9780226645476
Booksplease Price: $70.30The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically... -
Madison v. Marshall: Popular Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the United States Constitution by Guy Padula 9780739102602
Booksplease Price: $187.88Popular Sovereignty or Natural Law? At a time of constitutional crisis in the American body politic, Guy Padula's timely and stimulating new work explores whether the answers to today's heated... -
Madison v. Marshall: Popular Sovereignty, Natural Law, and the United States Constitution by Guy Padula 9780739103630
Booksplease Price: $85.33Popular Sovereignty or Natural Law? At a time of constitutional crisis in the American body politic, Guy Padula's timely and stimulating new work explores whether the answers to today's heated... -
Reconstructing History Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 9780415922791
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82In May 1997, a group of distinguished historians announced the formation of the Historical Society, an organization that sought to be free of the jargon-laden debates and political agendas that have... -
Interpretation and Social Criticism by Michael Walzer 9780674459717
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $48.73What do social critics do? I How do they go about doing it? Where do their principles come from? How do critics establish their distance from the people and institutions they criticize?Michael Walzer... -
A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II by William L. O'Neill
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.23As America fought to defend democracy in Europe and Asia during World War II, its own democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a... -
Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana by Gary Dorrien
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19This work argues that the influence of neoconservatives has been none too small and all too important in the shaping of this monumental doctrine and historic moment in American foreign policy... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144872
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that... -
Fear: The History of a Political Idea by Corey Robin
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $35.39For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor 9780674026766
RRP: $101.30Booksplease Price: $84.65What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we-in the West, at least-largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $37.97A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the...